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    Because those schools (not BC) will likely merge with the Big 12 for a large 3rd conference that competes in the same set of playoffs as the SEC and Big 10 (with less TV $ of course). I assume that Pac-ACC tier is the schools that don’t seem to care about big time athletics much getting together. I think this + unequal revenue sharing in the SEC and Big 10 is where it’s heading.
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    Love the Kaui Brewing sticker
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    It’s kinda wild how CUSA went from being one of the better mid majors to far and away the dregs of FBS so quickly.
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    It’s like how you can still go see something called Lynyrd Skynyrd that doesn’t feature a single original member.
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    To be fair, the black beans I had at lunch already cleared that path
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    Braunschweiger, white cheddar, mustard, pickle. Chased with a Michelada from scratch
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    That was a little sad in our house. Mizz State was a long time member of the Missouri Valley, which also includes Northern Iowa. My wife ran track for UNI and her conference meet a couple of years was at Missouri State.
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    That's not the actual one we had. Just a picture of a restored one that looks much shinier than the one I was running.
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    No. The city actually. Funny you mention Olivers though, as the other side of my family (the one that farms) had plenty, and a 1655 was the first thing I ever learned to drive (after the skidloader of course). And I know a lot of guys my dad's age who worked in that White factory.
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    Twisters

    Al_4_ISU replied to Hmbre97's topic in Movies and TV

    That might actually be more ridiculous than the flying cow. I kinda hate the first one too, for a bunch of reasons, but I still watched it as a kid a bunch of times. It's a complicated relationship. Engineered in a Chinese lab.
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    Twisters

    Al_4_ISU replied to Hmbre97's topic in Movies and TV

    Is someone making an Oklahoma stereotype bingo card for that trailer? We've got grain elevators, windmills, oil rigs, rodeos, wheat fields, run down diners, hay fields, cows. I didn't catch a meth lab in there, but I guess they can't bat 1.000. Seriously, that opening scene at the rodeo is the most ridiculous thing I've seen in years. Every one of the cell phones would have blown up at least 15 minutes before that thing touched down. Hell, they have enough warning any more they'd have probably postponed it before anything even got close.
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    Assuming it doesn't end up exploded, yes.
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    NWS just issued a "Favorable conditions for funnel clouds" for my county. I don't know if this is a precursor to an actual tornado watch, or if we've just zoomed on past that. Does NOT seem like nader weather. It was muggy AF yesterday, but it's been raining/drizzling since midnight. Not much volatility in the air it seems. Just looked it up. Weird. Seems to just be aerial funnel clouds that don't become actual tornadoes.https://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=IAZ009&warncounty=IAC089&firewxzone=IAZ009&local_place1=Cresco IA&product1=Special+Weather+Statement&lat=43.3746&lon=-92.1134 Crazy that it's happening by Charles City, though. That place is an absolute nader magnet. My grandpa was working there during their 1968 EF5.
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    I'm not trying to make my point about ISU vs Kentucky. Once I saw that what games weren't included, I understand why they're so low. And some of ISU's Fox OTA appearances were probably thrown out because at least one was UT who was our highest draw of an opponent. This was a 7 year window, too. My point was more that the Big 10 isn't as formidable as it looks and that a lot of schools in the other 4 leagues of that time frame were better than that looks. In the quoted post, I was referencing NW, who had almost all of their games on rated networks (exceptions being some Peacock games in 2023 alone).
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    Pearl Jam

    Al_4_ISU replied to Rip76's topic in Music

    There's an SNL performance that McCready was completely blacked out during that's earlier than the performance above. I always thought that's what got him on the path to get clean. I'm pretty sure he was into heroin at one point too. Prior to that, and obviously not as deep as many others in the Seattle scene.
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    Uhh, its the opposite. We have fewer games on those networks and still racked up more viewers than 5 Big 10 schools who are getting all of their games counted. That chart is total views. 25-30% of games for any Big 12, ACC, Pac 12, or bottom half of the SEC school aren't being included and many of those schools are either beating or in the ball park of schools who have all of their games counted.
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    Exactly. So when it shows ISU barely ahead of Northwestern, that's with 30% of our games showing 0 viewership. In reality, we're pounding them. And same applies for UK, Mizzou, Virginia, etc.
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    ESPN+ and Pac 12 Network had a ton of the games for the current Big 12 schools. And a lot of SEC and ACC schools play games on those respective conference networks. So really, with those numbers being completely excluded, a lot of those schools compare more favorably to the Big 10 on a per broadcast basis than it even looks like.
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    So then does it include ESPN+, Peacock, etc?
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    Some of those numbers are really interesting (TCU being double what Baylor draws; Aggy being behind Oregon and Auburn; Notre Dame that far out ahead of everyone). It does show that once FSU and Clemson leave the ACC that the Big 12 is a stronger product (higher floor for sure) and kinda drives home my belief that the ACC and Big 12 will merge into one thing that maintains the whole "seat at the table, but you make less" dynamic. Virginia gets bandied about as some kind of lock to the Big 10 due to their academics, but they're ahead of only Rutgers as a TV draw. Shit, UNC's barely ahead of us. Other things that surprised me: The bottom of the SEC. Mizzou and Kentucky behind the Big 12 (and even Wazzu/Ore. St.) by a decent margin was surprising.
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    It's the only team sport, really at any level on the planet, where games have objective results, but the post season, power within the sport, etc are largely determined more subjectively. That's part of what it makes so unique and compelling, but also just absolutely fucking maddening.
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    There might be a silver lining in it. A very small town near our farm got half leveled a couple of years ago (half of the town was destroyed). Not near as bad of a storm, but a flattened home is a flattend home. Insurance required everyone to rebuild on that property, and now you drive through and wonder why this town of ~50 people on the Minnesota/Iowa border is comprised of mostly brand new homes. That storm was also a night time 'nader. https://www.kimt.com/news/one-year-later-tiny-taopi-took-on-an-ef-2-tornado-and-won/article_1ed4e29c-d983-11ed-81af-c306ef0b1393.html
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    Yeah, that's fair. A lot of small town Oklahoma is pretty run down (no worse than a lot of Texas though, either in my experience) but I found Bartlesville to be better than most I've been through. I think with OK being this meeting point of the Midwest/South/Southwest, the more "Midwest" part of the state you're in (north and west of 44/40), the better off it tends to be compared to the more "South" parts (anything south of 44/east of 35). Again, that's my bias coming through, but Bartlesville feeling more Midwest than South probably colored my perception.
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    I mean, obviously I'm a small town midwest guy, but I've been through Bartlesville and thought it was pretty nice. You're near some nice outdoor areas, just up the road from Tulsa, and the town itself seemed to be doing well - especially in comparison to any other non-college town or major city in Oklahoma I've been through. Not a vacation destination, but no shithole either.
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    I’ve seen one rip a blade off a windmill. Luckily it dropped it in a freshly planted cornfield and not someone’s living room.

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